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Country Music
A commercial offshoot of the folk music of the rural South, country music is an American art form that gained worldwide appeal after World War Ⅱ. Originally known as hillbilly or mountain music, country music grew from the folk music that was brought to North America by Anglo-Celtic settlers in the 1700s and 1800s. The music changed as it came in contact with ethnic music--Acadian (Cajun) in Louisiana, Latin in the Southwest, African throughout much of the South--and such popular music as that found in vaudeville, minstrel shows, and Hawaiian tent shows. It was also called country and Western music because of its popularity with cowboys.
Traditionally country musicians have been most
proficient on stringed instruments. The violin, or fiddle, was the most popular instrument on the frontier because of its easy portability. To this day fiddle contests remain a feature of the country music scene. The banjo
A. claim
B. reputation
C. petition
D. attraction
[单项选择]At first country music was popular mainly in the ______.
A. South
B. Northeast and West
C. factories in Midwest
D. South and Northeast
[单项选择]Country music comes from ______.
A. the South and Northeast
B. the Northeast and Midwest
C. factories and army camps
D. the Appalachian Mountains and the Southwest
[单项选择]My brother likes country music, ______ I like pop music.
A. when
B. except
C. while
D. because
[单项选择]About ______ people were killed in the country's townships by the week- end.
A. three
B. thirteen
C. forty-six
D. sixty-four
[单项选择]SOLDIER: COUNTRY::
A. provost : student
B. president : university
C. bodyguard : individual
D. lawyer : court
E. (E) sheriff : crime
[填空题]Worried about what people are saying about you Concerns about gossip could influence behavior, including generosity, researchers said.
"As it turns out, the act of gossip can indeed be quite powerful," said Jared Piazza of Queen’s University in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
Piazza and Jesse M. Beringa studied the (36) of 72 college students who were asked to distribute tokens(代金卷) with a monetar3, value between themselves and someone else.
Half of the group were (37) told their decision would be discussed with a third party.
"Participants who were told that the receiver would be communicating their economic decision with the third party were (38) more generous in their allocations of the tokens than participants who were not (39) to believe that their decisions would be discussed," Piazza and Beringa said in the study published in the journal Human Behavior.
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